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Optional Review 9/30-10/4

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**Please let me stress that this is optional practice for your student, not required.  We do ask for students to read 20+ minutes every day to develop their love for reading.  

1- Optional Math Practice: 
  • The family letter below provides review in math that you can do with your student.  Please read the letter and invite your child to share what they know about the concept by doing the activity together. 
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    2- Reading 20 minutes per day.  No need to submit minutes, but we strongly encourage you to make reading a priority. Reading comprehension strategy: Help your child read a story and then retell the events from the story in the correct order.

    This is what we are working on this week in language arts block: 
    Unit 1 Week 4 Parent Newsletter

    Optional Review 9/23-9/27

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    **Please let me stress that this is optional practice for your student, not required.  We do ask for students to read 20+ minutes every day to develop their love for reading.  

    1- Optional Math Practice    : 
    • The family letter below provides review in math that you can do with your student.  Please read the letter and invite your child to share what they know about the concept by doing the activity together. 
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      2- Reading 20 minutes per day.  No need to submit minutes, but we strongly encourage you to make reading a priority. Reading comprehension strategy: Help your child read a story and then retell the events from the story in the correct order.

      This is what we are working on this week in language arts block: 
      Unit 1 Week 3 Parent Newsletter

      Zoo Field Trip Tomorrow

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      THE ZOO FIELD TRIP IS TOMORROW! 
      First Grade is going on a Field Trip to Hogle Zoo TOMORROW, Tuesday, September 17, 2019.  

      Please fill out the yearly permission form that includes the Zoo Field trip if you have not done so already using the link below: 

      Yearly Permission Slip

      1-  We are accepting field trips donations at the Q1 office, suggested donation $18.  We greatly appreciate anything that you can donate for our trip.  Thank you for your generosity!  Please know that if we don’t have enough field trip donations, we will have to cancel our field trip due to the cost of buses. 

      2- Wear school uniform with RED shirt, sunscreen and good walking shoes! Please dress for the weather.

      3- Bring a cold sack lunch from home in a disposable bag with your child’s name. (Unless you pre-ordered a school sack lunch).  The following students will have a school sack lunch: 
      Jacelynn Bluhm
      Logan Valquinto
      Everett Kay
      Brooklyn Laughter
      Bianca Nielson
      Jersea Silva
      Joshua Argueta 
      Bronx Call (white milk but lactose intolerant)

      ***ALL OTHER STUDENTS THAN THE ONES LISTED ABOVE NEED TO BRING A SACK LUNCH FOR THE FIELD TRIP WITH THEM IN A DISPOSABLE BAG WITH YOUR CHILD’S NAME ON IT** 

      4- Be on time. Arrive at school by 8:30am.  Bus departs at 9:00am.  We will leave the zoo around 1:00-1:15pm, returning to Quest around 2:15pm or 2:30pm.

      5- Parent chaperones: Please bring a backpack or bag to carry the lunches of the students in your group.  And a lunch for yourself.  We are planning on all the parents that requested to come on our online permission form.  Please be prepared to pay for yourself and any extra children you bring (2 and younger are free).  For those driving, plan on meeting us at the front of the zoo at 9:45am.  The zoo address is 2600 E. Sunnyside Avenue, Salt Lake, UT, 84108.    If you plan on driving and taking your student with you after, please meet us at the bus with your group and sign our check out form.  

      Below are the field trip groups. If you are a chaperone, please look to see who is in your group and double check your phone number. If you are meeting us at the zoo you’ll want to have printed off your group list ahead of time.
      Link to print:  Zoo Field Trip Groups 2019
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      Optional Review 9/16 -9/20

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      **Please let me stress that this is optional practice for your student, not required.  We do ask for students to read 20+ minutes every day to develop their love for reading.  

      1- Optional Math Practice      : 
      • The family letter below provides review in math that you can do with your student.  Please read the letter and invite your child to share what they know about the concept by doing the activity together. 

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        2- Reading 20 minutes per day.  No need to submit minutes, but we strongly encourage you to make reading a priority. Reading comprehension strategy: Help your child read a story and then retell the events from the story in the correct order.

        This is what we are working on this week in language arts block: 
        Unit 1 Week 2 Parent Newsletter

        The Zoo Field Trip Is Almost Here!

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        First Grade is going on a Field Trip to Hogle Zoo on Tuesday, September 17, 2019.  Please fill out the yearly permission form that includes the Zoo Field trip if you have not done so already using the link below: 

        Yearly Permission Slip

        1-  We are accepting field trips donations at the Q1 office, suggested donation $18.  We greatly appreciate anything that you can donate for our trip.  Thank you for your generosity!  Please know that if we don’t have enough field trip donations, we will have to cancel our field trip due to the cost of buses. 

        2- Wear school uniform with RED shirt, sunscreen and good walking shoes! Please dress for the weather.

        3- Bring a cold sack lunch from home in a disposable bag with your child’s name. (Unless you pre-ordered a school sack lunch).

        4- Be on time. Arrive at school by 8:30am.  Bus departs at 9:00am.  We will leave the zoo around 1:00-1:15pm, returning to Quest around 2:15pm or 2:30pm.

        5- Parent chaperones: Please bring a backpack or bag to carry the lunches of the students in your group.  And a lunch for yourself.  We are planning on all the parents that requested to come on our online permission form.  Please be prepared to pay for yourself and any extra children you bring (2 and younger are free).  For those driving, plan on meeting us at the front of the zoo at 9:45am.  The zoo address is 2600 E. Sunnyside Avenue, Salt Lake, UT, 84108.    If you plan on driving and taking your student with you after, please meet us at the bus with your group and sign our check out form.  

        Below are the field trip groups. If you are a chaperone, please look to see who is in your group and double check your phone number. If you are meeting us at the zoo you’ll want to have printed off your group list ahead of time.
        Link to print:  Zoo Field Trip Groups 2019
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        We’re Going To The Zoo!

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        First Grade is going on a Field Trip to Hogle Zoo on Tuesday, September 17, 2019.  Please fill out the yearly permission form that includes the Zoo Field trip if you have not done so already using the link below: 

        Yearly Permission Slip

        1-  We are accepting field trips donations at the Q1 office, suggested donation $18.  We greatly appreciate anything that you can donate for our trip.  Thank you for your generosity!  Please know that if we don’t have enough field trip donations, we will have to cancel our field trip due to the cost of buses.

        2- Wear school uniform with RED shirt, sunscreen and good walking shoes! Please dress for the weather.

        3- Bring a cold sack lunch from home in a disposable bag with your child’s name. (Unless you pre-ordered a school sack lunch).

        4- Be on time. Arrive at school by 8:30am.  Bus departs at 9:00am.  We will leave the zoo around 1:00-1:15pm, returning to Quest around 2:15pm or 2:30pm.

        5- Parent chaperones: Please bring a backpack or bag to carry the lunches of the students in your group.  And a lunch for yourself.  We are planning on all the parents that requested to come on our online permission form.  If your status has changed, please let us know ASAP.  Please be prepared to pay for yourself and any extra children you bring (2 and younger are free).  For those driving, plan on meeting us at the front of the zoo at 9:45am.  The zoo address is 2600 E. Sunnyside Avenue, Salt Lake, UT, 84108.    If you plan on driving and taking your student with you after, please meet us at the bus with your group and sign our check out form.  

        Optional Review for 9/9 – 9/13

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        **Please let me stress that this is optional practice for your student, not required.  We do ask for students to read 20+ minutes every day to develop their love for reading.  

        1- Optional Math Practice        : 
        • The family letter below provides review in math that you can do with your student.  Please read the letter and invite your child to share what they know about the concept by doing the activity together. 
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          2- Reading 20 minutes per day.  No need to submit minutes, but we strongly encourage you to make reading a priority. Reading comprehension strategy: Help your child read a story and then retell the events from the story in the correct order.

          This is what we are working on this week in language arts block: 

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